Boscarne Junction railway station

Infobox UK station
name=Boscarne Junction
locale=Boscarne
borough=North Cornwall
manager=Bodmin and Wenford Railway
platforms=1


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start = 1996

Boscarne Junction railway station is a railway station on the Bodmin and Wenford Railway in Cornwall, United Kingdom, and is its current terminus of the railway although it has been projected that a extension to Wadebridge will be constructed.cite web |url=http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=144143&command=displayContent&sourceNode=144131&contentPK=19159220&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch |title=Full Steam Ahead For RailTrail?|work=The Cornish Guardian |accessdate=2008-02-20] It is also the start of the cycle Camel Trail.

In earlier days it was the junction for lines to Bodmin, Wenfordbridge, and Padstow.

History

Boscarne Junction was created in 1888 when the Great Western Railway built a line to connect from their Bodmin General railway station to the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway.

Originally there was a loop on either side of the line, each straddling the junction which was controlled by a signal box; a second and longer loop was added from the signal box extending down the Wenfordbridge line well beyond the junction before 1911. The purpose of the GWR line was to take china clay from Wenford clay dries to the docks at Fowey, the traffic having previously been taken by the Bodmin and Wendford Railway to Wadebridge.

The line to Wadebridge was truncated at the road just beyond the signal box in 1981, and the line closed completely on 3 October 1983. Trains returned to Boscarne Junction in 1997 when the Bodmin and Wenford Steam Railway built a platform and began operating trains from Bodmin General.

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